The other day I downloaded the Silverlight Toolkit controls and was attempting to view the accompanying help file when I ran into the same problem I had the first time I used the Silverlight .chm file ; the contents of the help file wouldn't display....

Justin Angel has an exhaustive blog post on Silverlight design time extensibility. You can get it here . Nitya.

If you've installed the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 , you may have noticed that pressing F1 in the VS Code Editor or in XAML View can take you someplace unexpected. You'll see this with types and members that are "shared" between...

I’m posting this because the documentation on ViewportOrigin is wrong and it might be a while before it can be updated on the live site. In the meantime, this post discusses how to use ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth to control the viewport. Controlling...

There seems to be a fair amount of misunderstanding about windowless mode, and the current documentation doesn't provide enough detail to help out. The upcoming doc refresh will fix this, but I thought it might be helpful to provide some information here...

Our team has been watching the forums and there are a lot of questions regarding using Silverlight with WCF and data services, HTTP questions and security questions. We created some new topics and updated existing topics to better cover these areas for...

The WPF Designer team has publicly released a Rollup Hotfix (KB958017) for the WPF Designer in Visual Studio 2008 SP1.  This contains a number of important fixes for WPF developers (see below). Silverlight developers are not affected. If you already...

The Silverlight 2 Offline documentation now has an index (before it only had a table of contents and search). When you open the CHM, click on the Index tab to try it out. IMPORTANT! If you open the CHM and cannot view content, do the following to resolve...